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▓█▓▓█ Artist.....[ The Torrent ▀████▄█▓
██▓▀ Album......[ Leonora Moreno ▀▓██
▄ █▓█ █ Label......[ Tetrapod Music █ █▓█ ▄
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▓▓█▓▀ ██ Language...[ English ██ ▀▓█▓▓
▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2009-04-24 ████▄ ▀
▄ ▀ ▓█▓ Store Date.[ 2009-04-09 ▓█▓ ▀ ▄
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▀█▓▀ Quality....[ 177 kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo ▀▓█▀
▄ █▓█▄▓█▓ Url........[ http://www.thetorrent.net ▓█▓▄█▓█ ▄
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█▓ 01 Unpopular 2:50 ▓█
█▓ 02 Musik Machine 4:13 ▓█
█▓ 03 Rad Adapter 2:08 ▓█
█▓ 04 Catherine Deneuve 1:42 ▓█
█▓ 05 Pairs 2:14 ▓█
█▓ 06 Half A Man 3:27 ▓█
█▓ 07 I Seen The Dog 3:01 ▓█
█▓ 08 White Light 3:26 ▓█
█▓ 09 Big Fires 3:35 ▓█
█▓ 10 I You Me 3:36 ▓█
█▓ 11 Hey Stranger 1:22 ▓█
█▓ 12 The Tunnel 4:46 ▓█
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█░█▒ The Torrent is not named after a download protocol. ▒█░█
█░█▒ Mike Barry plays guitar and sings, and Cameron ▒█░█
█░█▒ Groves sings, plays violin and deals with the ▒█░█
█░█▒ machines. In April 09 The Torrent released two new ▒█░█
█░█▒ singles for Building Blocks Digitial Singles Club, ▒█░█
█░█▒ Life Boat and Leopold Bloom. The songs will end up ▒█░█
█░█▒ on the Building Blocks Volume 1 compilation LP, due ▒█░█
█░█▒ out in the fall. Also in April, Leonora Moreno, a ▒█░█
█░█▒ 12-song CD, was released on the Tetrapod Music ▒█░█
█░█▒ label. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Mike and Cameron met at a film festival in 2005 and ▒█░█
█░█▒ bonded over a talk about Amy LockhartÆs cult ▒█░█
█░█▒ classic Miss Edmonton Teenburger 1983. Mike moved ▒█░█
█░█▒ in with Cameron a week or two later. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ One afternoon that summer, Mike was about to head ▒█░█
█░█▒ off on tour with the Hidden Cameras, and Cameron ▒█░█
█░█▒ was rocking a miniature Casio. ôThereÆs music in ▒█░█
█░█▒ you that wants to get out,ö said Mike. At that ▒█░█
█░█▒ moment The Torrent was born. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ They started jamming on violin and electric guitar. ▒█░█
█░█▒ They wrote songs; Catherine Deneuve was inspired by ▒█░█
█░█▒ a photo stuck to the fridge door. ôShe looks like a ▒█░█
█░█▒ cat,ö Cameron said. Mike wrote the riff. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ They named the band after a 1926 Garbo film. Their ▒█░█
█░█▒ first gig was at 2am at the Drake Underground ▒█░█
█░█▒ during Canadian Music Week, filling in at the last ▒█░█
█░█▒ minute. They played to about half a dozen ▒█░█
█░█▒ enthusiastic Danish indie rockers, who sang along ▒█░█
█░█▒ to ôHey Stranger.ö One of them jumped up and down ▒█░█
█░█▒ and yelled, ôItÆs a hit!ö ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Then they played a show in Peterborough, where the ▒█░█
█░█▒ only people in the audience were the other band and ▒█░█
█░█▒ the restaurant staff. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ After The Torrent had been around for about a year, ▒█░█
█░█▒ Tara Azzopardi joined, playing keys, mainly. As a ▒█░█
█░█▒ trio they played shows at Toronto clubs like Lee's ▒█░█
█░█▒ Palace, Sneaky DeeÆs and El Mocambo. They opened ▒█░█
█░█▒ for acts including Electrelane and Vampire Weekend. ▒█░█
█░█▒ They got compared to all sorts of bands: Alien Sex ▒█░█
█░█▒ Fiend, Young Marble Giants, Beat Happening, Sonic ▒█░█
█░█▒ Youth, Butthole Surfers, The Smiths, Magnetic ▒█░█
█░█▒ Fields, Morphine, Joy Division. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ When The Torrent headlined Wavelength in 2008, a ▒█░█
█░█▒ reviewer for Now wrote that ôWatching The Torrent ▒█░█
█░█▒ is like looking through an old View-Master; around ▒█░█
█░█▒ the edges there may be a faded punk nostalgia, but ▒█░█
█░█▒ this only works to bring into sharp focus their ▒█░█
█░█▒ bright and innovative centre.ö ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Around the same time Mike moved out, and The ▒█░█
█░█▒ Torrent started recording in CameronÆs makeshift ▒█░█
█░█▒ home studio. He mixed together five songs as a kind ▒█░█
█░█▒ of experiment, and called the collection ep07. It ▒█░█
█░█▒ spent a few weeks in the Canadian campus radio Top ▒█░█
█░█▒ 50. Exclaim reviewed the EP: ôTwitchy art school ▒█░█
█░█▒ dance floor rock is the name of the game for The ▒█░█
█░█▒ Torrent, and itÆs a game they play rather well.ö ▒█░█
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█░█▒ In summer and fall 2008, The Torrent released ▒█░█
█░█▒ videos for their songs Musik Machine (featuring ▒█░█
█░█▒ Keith Cole naked on light-up guitar) and Catherine ▒█░█
█░█▒ Deneuve (featuring TaraÆs drawings of the actress ▒█░█
█░█▒ and assorted cats). The band also became a duo ▒█░█
█░█▒ again, when Tara left to focus on other stuff. They ▒█░█
█░█▒ began collaborating with animator Philippe ▒█░█
█░█▒ Blanchard, who creates trippy interactive ▒█░█
█░█▒ projections for their shows. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ In 2009, Blocks Recording Club asked The Torrent ▒█░█
█░█▒ for two new songs to release digitally as the first ▒█░█
█░█▒ instalment in Building Blocks Digital Singles Club. ▒█░█
█░█▒ Blocks will release a vinyl compilation LP ▒█░█
█░█▒ (Builiding Blocks Vol. 1) in the fall, which will ▒█░█
█░█▒ include songs from five more bands. People can get ▒█░█
█░█▒ the downloads through the Blocks Facebook group. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ The TorrentÆs first LP, Leonora Moreno, was ▒█░█
█░█▒ released as a CD on April 9, 2009. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ The Band ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Michael Barry: electric guitar ▒█░█
█░█▒ Mike e.b. was in the Hidden Cameras for many years, ▒█░█
█░█▒ and now plays with psych-noise band LSDoubleDCup. ▒█░█
█░█▒ He also starred as Bart the security guard in the ▒█░█
█░█▒ 2004 cult classic Dawn of the Dead. He plays a ▒█░█
█░█▒ skinhead in Atom EgoyanÆs Adoration. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ Cameron Groves: violin/vox ▒█░█
█░█▒ Cameron sings, plays violin, and makes short films ▒█░█
█░█▒ that have screened at festivals all over. In 2008 ▒█░█
█░█▒ he put together the videos for Musik Machine and ▒█░█
█░█▒ Catherine Deneuve, using vintage film footage, ▒█░█
█░█▒ pulsing white boxes and flying cat heads. ▒█░█
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█░█▒ http://www.thetorrent.net ▒█░█
█░█▒ http://www.leonoramoreno.com ▒█░█
█░█▒ http://www.tetrapodmusic.com ▒█░█
█░█▒ http://www.myspace.com/thetorrent ▒█░█
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